The Nova Scotia government Thursday announced an extension of a ban on oil and gas drilling in the Canadian sector of the great fishing grounds known as Georges Bank.
Premier Darrel Dexter said the extension will bar drilling through the end of 2015.
A ban announced by President Obama earlier this year protects the larger U.S. sector of Georges through 2017.
The most westerly of the great North Atlantic fishing banks is oval shaped and about the size of Massachusetts. It has been worked since pre-Colonial times and helped make Gloucester the nation's iconic fishing port.
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